Owaisi rebukes Yogi over ‘Nizam’ barb, says he isn’t running away

AIMIM chief also takes a jibe at Narendra Modi, saying if ‘tea seller has become the PM, he should act like one’

HYDERABAD Hitting back at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s “Nizam” barb at him, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has said India is his father’s country and no one is running away. He also took the occasion to take a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by saying that if a tea seller has become the prime minister, he should act like one.

Addressing a poll rally on Sunday night, he also said Adityanath was speaking the language of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and he was ignorant about history.

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief was reacting to Adityanath’s comments at a rally in poll-bound Telangana that he would have to “run away” from Hyderabad, just like the Nizam, if the BJP came to power in the southern state.

“Yogi says if the BJP comes to power in Telangana, Owaisi will be made to run away like the Nizam. The first thing, you (Adityanath) are zero in history. If you cannot read, then ask the literate... Had you read (history), you would have known that the Nizam did not leave Hyderabad and Mir Osman Ali Khan was made the ‘Raj Pramukh’ and when there was a war with China, the same Nizam had given his gold...You are saying the Nizam had run away... he did not run away,” the Hyderabad MP said.

He added that if Adityanath was willing, he could come with him to the Nizam’s grave and offer flowers.

“But will you come? You may ask to change the name of the grave also,” Owaisi said, mocking Adityanath’s plans to rename places in Uttar Pradesh. He added, “Yogi, you are a chief minister... speak like one. In your constituency, hundreds of children are dying every year due to encephalitis. There is no oxygen in the hospitals of Gorakhpur, you are not worried about that, you are coming here and building walls of hatred.... This is Narendra Modi and his party’s language... and Narendra Modi's mentality.”

He took a jibe at Modi as well, based on the lines of his ‘tea-seller-to-minister’ story.
“Baat karein ki ‘chai chai chai, chai. Har waqt vahi, demonetisation. Ye chai, vo chai, kadak chai, naram chai. Ye Wazir-e-Azam hain ya kya hain? Arey chaiwala tha, ab Wazir-e-Azam hai. Wazir-e-Azam jaisa ban jao,” he said. (‘Chai chai chai’ has been repeated under the garb of campaigns like demonetisation and others. This tea and that one, a searing cup or mild one! What is this leader? He was a tea seller and now is the Prime Minister. He should become like a Prime Minister now).

The 119-member Telangana Assembly will go to polls on December 7 and the results will be announced on December 11.

Rahul says, ‘not to be fooled by Modi, KCR, Owaisi’, who are ‘all the same’

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday told the people of Telangana that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi are all ‘alike’ and urged the voters not to be fooled by the lot in the upcoming Assembly polls on December 7. Earlier in the day, the Congress chief said, “Telangana was born of idealism and great dreams. But, four years of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) incompetence, arrogance and corruption has made the people cynical.”

Several states to poll with LS

NEW DELHI The Election Commission is likely to hold Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh with Lok Sabha (LS) elections due next year, highlyplaced sources in the poll panel said.

While the term of the Sikkim Assembly ends on May 27, 2019, the terms of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Arunachal Pradesh assemblies end on June 18, June 11and June 1, respectively. The sources also said there is a possibility of holding elections to the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, dissolved this month before it completed its tenure, along with general elections. They pointed out that by holding Assembly elections in in the four states along with the Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission (EC) will be following precedents.

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